{"id":1842,"date":"2012-12-03T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:33:14","slug":"extreme-scientific-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/extreme-scientific-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme scientific analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/DiscoverDiscoblog\">Discoblog<\/a> is one o<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/Scientist-in-the-jungle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1844\" title=\"Scientist in the jungle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/Scientist-in-the-jungle-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/Scientist-in-the-jungle-163x300.jpg 163w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/Scientist-in-the-jungle.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a>f my favorite blogs.\u00a0 It reports on weird, humorous, and astonishing studies that have been published.\u00a0 Here are links to some posts about studies that the Disco-bloggers labeled, \u201canalysis taken too far\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: How academics face the world: a study of 5829 homepage pictures.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/08\/15\/ncbi-rofl-how-academics-face-the-world-a-study-of-5829-homepage-pictures\/\">How academics face the world: a study of 5829 homepage pictures.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: Bobcats eating cadavers. Now THAT\u2019s science.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/07\/19\/ncbi-rofl-bobcats-eating-cadavers-now-thats-science\/\">Bobcats eating cadavers. Now THAT\u2019s science.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/07\/25\/ncbi-rofl-dynamics-of-conflicts-in-wikipedia\/\">Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: The effect of hurricanes on popular baby names.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/10\/04\/ncbi-rofl-the-effect-of-hurricanes-on-baby-names\/\">The effect of hurricanes on popular baby names.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: Effects of pleasant ambient fragrances on dental fear: comparing apples and oranges.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/09\/05\/ncbi-rofl-effects-of-pleasant-ambient-fragrances-on-dental-fear-comparing-apples-and-oranges\/\">Effects of pleasant ambient fragrances on dental fear: comparing apples and oranges.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: Presidential laugh lines. Candidate display behavior and audience laughter in the 2008 primary debates.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/10\/16\/ncbi-rofl-presidential-laugh-lines-candidate-display-behavior-and-audience-laughter-in-the-2008-primary-debates\/\">Presidential laugh lines. Candidate display behavior and audience laughter in the 2008 primary debates.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to NCBI ROFL: Rating of personality disorder features in popular movie characters.\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2012\/08\/08\/ncbi-rofl-rating-of-personality-disorder-features-in-popular-movie-characters\/\">Rating of personality disorder features in popular movie characters.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/images\/\">Microsoft Office Clipart<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discoblog is one of my favorite blogs.\u00a0 It reports on weird, humorous, and astonishing studies that have been published.\u00a0 Here are links to some posts about studies that the Disco-bloggers labeled, \u201canalysis taken too far\u201d: How academics face the world: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/extreme-scientific-analysis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-scientific-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}